An example of how using floating car data (FCD) can improve roadway performance across strategic road networks, key corridors and cities. FCD are compared with traditional traffic detection technologies. The conclusion is that, for the scope of the reference project, the use of FCD can reduce the overall investment costs assuring on the other hand more accuracy and flexibility.

1. INRIX ITS Innovation Workshop
Using “Big-Data” to improve roadway
performance across strategic road
networks, key corridors and cities
Madrid – May, 23rd 2017

2. Roadmap of the presentation
• AF TOSCANO, who we are
• Region of the project and actual situation
• New FEDRO directive RiLi 15016
• Goals and requirements of the project
• Traffic data: sensors vs FCD
• Project status and development
• Acknowledgments
• Questions
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3. AF TOSCANO, who we are
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• Engineering company,
founded in 1959 by Edy
Toscano in Zürich as EDY
TOSCANO AG
• Since December 2016 we
are part of the Swedish
AF-Group as
AF TOSCANO
• 21 Branches in
Switzerland
• Branch Castione,
business-unit “Elektro”
• 370 Employees (as of
April 2017)
• Turnover 2016:
CHF 48 Million
11 %
1 %Measuring
29 %Industrial-plants
5 % Safety equipment
7 % Project-management
24 %Traffic infrastructures
4 %Works management
4 %Environment
9 % Tunnelling
6 % Bridges
Administration

4. Region of the project and
actual situation
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• Managing Authority: FEDRO
(Federal Road Administration)
• Motorway N2 (E35) in
Switzerland
• Section (region) between
Chiasso and Lugano (27 km),
near the border with Italy
• Heavy traffic (about 70’000
vehicle per day) with
commuters and tourists
• Daily tailbacks in both
directions
• About 3 km in tunnel (3
tunnels)

5. Region of the project, actual
situation
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• Active and passive road signals
are already in place, including
Variable Message Signs (VMS)
• Road signals are controlled by five
calculators already in place
• Traffic management is performed
by police operators in one
control-room in Canton Ticino
• Harmonized speed management
already present (since 2012) but
not automated (the operator
decides what to do)
• Due to this limitation, the actual
harmonized speed management
system is not very efficient and
not always coherent

6. New FEDRO directive
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• New FEDRO directive 15016 in
force since January 5th, 2015
• Speed harmonization and
warning of dangers is required
in regions with heavy taffic
• The idea behind is: reducing
the speed enhances the road
capacity when the traffic
density increases
• Speed reduction: 120 km/h 
100 km/h  80 km/h
• Fully automated systems are
required: automatic and fast
evaluation of the traffic
conditions plays a key role

7. Goals and requirements of the
project
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• Main goal: reducing travel times in the region
through speed harmonization (congestion
avoidance)
• Enhance the safety of the users (better traffic
conditions)
• Efficient and fully automated system
• Warning of dangers
• Traffic management possible also in the VMZ control
room (control room for the whole Switzerland)
• Short set-up timings with absolutely no impediments
to the traffic-flow (because this is the main road-axis of
the Canton Ticino)
• Last but not least: costs containment

8. Traffic-data: sensors vs FCD
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• We need reliable and almost on-line traffic-data
• We considered, during the project phase, the following
technologies:
- loops
- video cameras
- thermal video cameras
- radar/ultrasound/infrared
• We considered data from providers of mobile networks
• We considered FCD
• Our proposal to FEDRO has been: FCD from INRIX as the
basis of the new system
• To be noted: FEDRO hasn't yet a standard for FCD, nor
foresees, by now, their use in systems.

9. Of course, we made some checks before:
• Verifications provided by INRIX carried out
in other projects
Traffic-data: sensors vs FCD
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Traffic-data: sensors vs FCD
• A short comparison: pros
FCD (INRIX) Other technologies
Set-up time Traffic data already optimized, readily
available through a pre-defined and
tested API
Development of algorithms,
time-consuming tuning

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Traffic-data: sensors vs FCD
• A short comparison: pros
FCD (INRIX) Other technologies
Accuracy We designed 5+5 sectors, coherent
with the available traffic signals. With
FCD we are able to detect a tailback or
a thickening on the whole extension of
each sector.
Detection only by the start of each
sector (in order to reduce the number
of the tracking stations and their
hardware – 11 stations planned)
Openness Use of XD-segments as well as
TMC-segments
Integrator-dependant
Costs Investment-costs = 0
Maintenance-costs = 0
Energy-costs = 0
Significant cost advantage for FCD
compared to sensors in terms of TOC
(total cost of ownership)
For 11 tracking stations:
Investment-costs = €350’000
Maintenance-costs = €11’000/y
Energy-costs = €20’000/y
Expected life = 15 years (according to
the norm SIA 197/2)
Costs rise with the number of stations
Easy
expandability
Possibility to easily include data of the
incoming traffic from the nearby cities
of Mendrisio and Lugano as well as
from Italy and from north
Only possible through installation of
additional tracking stations (time,
investments costs, permissions, …)
Information Weather and incident information
available (task of the project is also
the warning of dangers)
No information available

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Traffic-data: sensors vs FCD
• A short comparison: cons
FCD (INRIX) Other technologies
Vehicle-
counting*
Vehicle-counting not available.
Traffic class detection (lorry, car,
motorbike, etc.) not available
Vehicle-counting possible, with class
detection
False tailback-
detections**
False tailback detection by trucks
parked alongside the motorway in
particular circumstances (such as:
closed customs to Italy)
Only vehicles actually on the road are
considered.
* If needed, we’ll use values from the loops already installed by the 3 tunnels
** Not exactly a draw-back for our project, as the speed must anyway be reduced in such cases for
safety reasons

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Project-status and
development
• Project has been officially approved by FEDRO with the use of
FCD of INRIX
• We are in the tender-phase /development-phase of the 8 lots
in which supplies and services of the project has been divided
• Development and tests (10 calculators affected): spring 2017
– autumn 2018
• Installation (in 5 steps): spring 2018 – spring 2019
• Start of production: June 2019

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Project status and
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Project status and
development
• Automated safety reactions between the three tunnels (for
traffic management)
• Automated information messages on the VMS (warning of
dangers):
- traffic conditions
- travel times
- accidents
- weather conditions
• Some safety commands for the whole region will be
available for police-operators (e.g.: faster reaction by
wrong-way drivers)
More functionalities of the system:

16. Acknowledgments
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• FEDRO, Federal Road Administration
- Mr. Mario Bergna, project leader
- Mr. Marco Fioroni, director branch F5 Bellinzona
- Mr. Markus Eisenlohr, expert consultant Bern
• INRIX Europe GmbH / INRIX UK Ltd
- Mr. Holger Hochgürtel, director sales
- Mr. James Hobbins, technical account manager

17. Any questions?
Contact:
Italo Broggini
Phone: +41 91 611 51 94
Mobile: +41 79 598 44 09
italo.broggini@toscano.ch
www.toscano.ch
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